We reveal fascinating, contentious and inspiring stories from the Black Sea region and beyond, for a global audience, using deep reportage, tough fact-checking and a balanced perspective.

We are a team of experienced and award-winning journalists, photographers, film-makers, information-designers and coders, using a platform that hosts in-depth stories in text, images, video and infographics.

Our aim is to disclose relevant information which impacts people across nations at the nexus of warring empires and ideologies, which suffer from conflict, corruption, negative stereotypes and huge wealth disparity.

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Awards

2018

The Black Sea has been nominated for The European Press Prize, in the Investigation Category, for its work on The Malta Files: 'How the smallest EU country became a haven for global tax avoidance', with EIC Network.

Our research and co-authored articles have been published in all the above media.

Our investigations include Football Leaks in 2016/2017, a series of articles from the largest leak in sports history, in a project run by over 60 journalists in 14 countries, and The Malta Files in 2017, which exposed the smallest EU country as a haven for tax avoidance for wealthy Russians, the Italian mafia and the Turkish elite.

Other work from The Black Sea has already been re-published extensively internationally - ‘The Donbass Paradox’ and ‘Eurocrimes’ were also published in EU Observer, with the former named by Newsweek as an 'excellent journalistic article'.

'The Fight to Reclaim Pankisi' was republished by the New York Times (Paywall).